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Grayjay Desktop App

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bisby ◴[] No.42474981[source]
Launching the Linux release and noticed in the logs:

Directories:User Directory: /home/bisby/Grayjay

And there is a directory there now. I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this. Ideally, this should be following XDG directory guidelines on linux: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

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koen31 ◴[] No.42475304[source]
Grayjay dev here. If you want it to use your user directory like other apps, just remove the file called "Portable". Keep in mind that it just uses your working directory to write files otherwise.
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godDLL ◴[] No.42475423[source]
That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.
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indrora ◴[] No.42475916[source]
Even Windows has %appdata% which is where you put stuff on disk that you need to stash away. There's also function calls iirc which will give you a handle to a temporary file if you need it.
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LeonB ◴[] No.42476749[source]
And if you’re feeling particularly Sadomasochistic there’s always the Windows Registry.
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1. chupasaurus ◴[] No.42477874[source]
Hey, that's NSFW content on HN!

Also I still find it funny that OpenSSH client shipped via feature uses %HOMEDIR%\.ssh